Dictionary entry

Smoke bomb

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

မီးခိုးဗုံး။

Definition

sightless /'saÇtlǝs/ adj မ်က္စိမျမင္ေသာ။ အျမင္အာ႐ံုမဲ့ေသာ။ sightless eyes ❍ a sightless species of bat.

Examples

  1. ‘The girl stares at the shark
  2. her pretty human eye focused on the eye of the sightless
  3. eerie fish.’
  4. ‘Between the torch brackets
  5. images of long-dead nobility gazed down at them with an air of sorrow
  6. as if their sightless eyes regretted the passing of more cheerful days.’
  7. ‘Beneath the ancient hammer beam roof
  8. and under the sightless gaze of stone statues of the Saxon kings
  9. the MPs gathered on the eastern side of the south end of the hall
  10. peers on the western side.’
  11. ‘Lee's sightless eyes followed the sound of Frank's voice.’
  12. ‘Their sightless eyes
  13. black as tar
  14. ‘looked’ in every direction.’
  15. ‘Now you know what an auditory minefield we sightless people face all the time.’
  16. ‘To convince the enemy of their menacing strength
  17. the townspeople were ordered to bang drums
  18. blow trumpets and jostle the sightless envoy.’
  19. ‘Suddenly
  20. Cy stopped ranting and faced Peter once more
  21. with a faint glimmer of recognition in his sightless eyes that were now filled with tears running down his leathery cheek.’
  22. ‘Jophiel cocked his head
  23. his cornstalk hair dipping in front of his sightless eyes.’
  24. ‘Oedipus angrily dismissed the sightless old man
  25. accusing him of conspiring with Jocasta's brother
  26. Creon
  27. to overthrow him.’
  28. ‘In Barcelona
  29. 1934
  30. she photographs a man on a stool on a sidewalk
  31. his white eyes sightless
  32. the crook of his cane resting against one thigh
  33. a beggar's bowl in his hand.’
  34. ‘Evoking the myth of Pygmalion
  35. a woman portrayed as a sightless sculptor in Blind Vision brings to life a Napoleonic man of clay who responds to the touch of her modeling by opening one seeing eye.’
  36. ‘Above the doorway
  37. the sightless eyes of tigers stare down from their plinths; below is a signed daguerreotype of Queen Victoria.’
  38. ‘In Oedipus Rex
  39. the proud yet morally blind king plucks out his eyes
  40. and has to spend his remaining days as a wandering
  41. sightless beggar
  42. guided at every painful step by his daughter
  43. Antigone.’
  44. ‘The McDonoughs consulted with their veterinarian
  45. who advised them that they were too busy to cope with the challenges posed by a sightless canine.’
  46. ‘He and his coworkers are tracking the progress of 20 children in India
  47. ages 6 to 15
  48. who grew up sightless before the surgical removal of their cataracts.’
  49. ‘Maia turned her sightless eyes towards the shopkeeper.’
  50. ‘Shah Alam II ruled well until his eighties and died as a sightless wretch dressed in rags when an army from Bengal led by General Gerald Lake stormed Delhi and Agra.’
  51. ‘Moreover
  52. both compositions boast the same cast of eccentrically posed
  53. heavily built characters
  54. with their unmistakably distorted faces and sightless eyes.’
  55. ‘Wordenwood now plans to start a special foundation for the blind that will push for the use of Braille on lures to help sightless fishermen around the world.’